BARCELONA, Spain – Emerging markets and the carriers that serve those areas took center stage, literally, during day two of this week’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, as leaders from India’s Bharti Airtel, Telefonica’s Latin American operations and VimpelCom talked about the...
Alcatel-Lucent | August 26, 2011 | Press Release
St. Petersburg, August 26, 2011 - OJSC VimpelCom announced the choice of Alcatel-Lucent's (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) technical solution to support the launch of new services for Beeline subscribers in the North-Western region of Russia based...
Greenpacket has been awarded a 2-year contract by Wateen Telecom, WiMAX operator in Pakistan, for the supply of Greenpacket’s modem, the UH350. Wateen Telecom is a venture of the Abu Dhabi Group, which also owns Warid Telecom, Pakistan’s mobile operator. Value undisclosedDialogic announced that...
With more than 5.3 billion mobile connections across the globe, the wireless industry continues to chase worldwide saturation.To the surprise of few, the world's most populous nations – China and India – are also the world's largest mobile markets. China continued to lead the...
VimpelCom | August 1, 2011 | Press Release
Amsterdam (August 1, 2011) – VimpelCom Ltd. (“VimpelCom” or the “Company”) (NYSE: VIP) today published its 2010 Annual Report. The report is available at http://vimpelcom.com/ir/financials/reports.wbp
Shareholders may request a hard copy of the 2010 Annual Report free of...
Trying to figure out winners and losers in the LTE space is going to take a few years to figure out, as operators test networks and announce trials before going commercial, but a new report from the Global Mobile Suppliers Association on LTE attempts...
Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News Editor Sylvie Barak delved deep into the Russian wireless landscape during a recent trip to the country. She delivered a feature report for RCR Wireless News that was included in our November Special Edition. Click here ...
Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News Editor Sylvie Barak delved deep into the Russian wireless landscape during a recent trip to the country. She delivered a feature report for RCR Wireless News that was included in our November Special Edition. Click here ...
Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the No. 11 through No. 20 largest wireless carriers worldwide based on subscriber numbers at the end of the first quarter of 2010 unless noted. For a list of the No. 1 through No. 10 largest carriers...
Editor's Note:This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' March Special Edition, "The Perfect Storm – A Focus on Mobile Messaging, Marketing, Content and Apps." The 80-page special edition is available here.
Few metaphors more aptly describe the wireless industry and at the...
Vimpelcom and MegaFon - two of Russia's three largest wireless carriers - will offer Apple Inc.'s iPhone "later this year," according to company statements in recent days. Together, the two carriers serve about 80 million Russians, according to news reports. Russia has about 140...
If the incumbent smartphone vendors give you the blues, all you have to do is wait a week for Velocity Mobile.This new smartphone vendor will launch at CTIA 2008 and seems certain to draw the curious. In such a brutally competitive market, some of...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--Egypt: Etisalat Misr signed a contract with L.M. Ericsson calling...
The hype cycle offers fertile ground for startups. Consider modu, a private company based in Israel, which today provided that familiar, heady mix of grandiose claims, intriguing technology, long launch window and big-name backers that often ignites press speculation.Less than a week before the...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Cellular Austria: Mobilkom Austria Group chose Alcatel-Lucent to...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless...
MOSCOW-Vimpel Communications, which provides cellular service in Russia, Kazakstan and the Ukraine, has acquired a 60-percent stake in Tacom, a wireless carrier in Tajikistan. VimpelCom paid $12 million for the stake.The carrier also entered into an agreement with the remaining Tacom shareholders that grants...
MOSCOW-Vimpel Communications, which provides cellular service in Russia, Kazakstan and the Ukraine, has acquired a 60-percent stake in Tacom, a wireless carrier in Tajikistan. VimpelCom paid $12 million for the stake. The carrier also entered into an agreement with the remaining Tacom shareholders that...
Gosh, the holidays can really put one on an emotional roller coaster. Put another way, what a way to start the new year! Just ask VimpelCom, Russia's No. 2 mobile-phone operator.In early December, Russian tax troops notified VimpelCom-known on the street as BeeLine-it owed...
MOSCOW-Russian wireless carrier VimpelCom announced it has won a tender against international bidders to purchase KaR-Tel, the second-largest cellular operator in Kazakhstan, for $350 million plus assumption of $75 million in debt.KaR-Tel holds a national GSM 900 MHz license and serves about 600,000 subscribers,...
MOSCOW-Russian wireless carrier VimpelCom announced it has won a tender against international bidders to purchase KaR-Tel, the second-largest cellular operator in Kazakhstan, for $350 million plus assumption of approximately $75 million in debt.KaR-Tel holds a national GSM 900 MHz license and currently serves approximately...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced two new contract wins for GSM technology.Nokia will extend its contract to Russia's VimpelCom for GSM/GPRS equipment under a $60 million agreement for 2004. The gear will be used to develop the Bee Line GSM network in the northwest and...
Following are mobile contracts for December 2003:AlcatelCanada. With Telus Mobility for a cross-Canada communications backbone infrastructure.Value: UndisclosedChina. With China Unicom for multiple expansion contracts.Value: $40 millionHungary. With Westel as the sole supplier of an EDGE system.Value: UndisclosedMalaysia. With Maxis Communications for GSM/GPRS/EDGE/W-CDMA gear.Value: UndisclosedTaiwan....
MOSCOW-An announcement by Russian operator VimpelCom today could potentially change the landscape of the Russian mobile market. VimpelCom said it agreed that its major shareholder, Alfa Group, would buy an indirect 25.1-percent stake in VimpelCom rival MegaFon."The consent contemplates that the parties will explore...
